Born 1984, Birmingham, UK. Lives and works in Manchester, UK.
Ruth graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008 and was the Derek Hill Scholar at the British School at Rome. Her notable exhibitions include Northern Stars at the A Foundation, Saatchi's 4 New Sensations, The Creative Cities Collection at the Barbican and the BP Portrait Award. She was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields grant in 2021, and a second grant in 2024. She won the Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2020, and she was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2019 (subsequently elected as a member in 2023). Ruth was the recipient of the International Women’s Residency, Barossa Valley, Australia in 2024. Her work is in private and public collections worldwide, including UNESCO’s Creative Cities Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, and The Whitaker Museum.
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The Way We Live - The Box, Plymouth
nothing glod can stay - Texture, Manchester
There is Room in the Bag of Stars - Terrace Gallery, London
Slip (co-curated with Linda Hemmersbach) - Ocean’s Apart, Manchester
CODEX - Centre for Recent Drawing, London
The Pearls - Manchester Contemporary, Manchester
Moss Worlds - National Trust Castlefield Viaduct, Manchester
Planted - The FG Gallery, nr.Knutsford
Small Horse (two-person show with Sarah F Grant) - The Birley, Preston
Byron’s Pond (solo) - Garden Museum, London
Medusa - Union Gallery, London
Darkness Visible - APT Gallery, London
Un Ouef is Un Ouef - TJ Boulting, London
Holding Time (two-person show with Linda Hemmersbach, touring) - ARB, Cambridge University , Cambridge
More News About Flowers - Division of Labour, Manchester
Assembley - Rye Creative Centre, Sussex
Tree and Leaf - Division of Labout, Manchester
Rogue Women - Manchester Contemporary, Manchester
Today - Curatorial Project in NW England, Preston
Shuffle - MAKE, Liverpool
X, Contempoary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Pebble / Shoe, LLE Gallery and Kingsgate Project Space, London
Holding Time (two-person show with Linda Hemmersbach), Rogue Project Space, Manchester
London Art Fair, Second Act Gallery and A Modest Show, London Business and Design Centre
Cool, Warm, Hot!, with Division of Labour, Worcester
Art Market Hamptons: A Modest Show Booth, New York
Fayre Share Fayre, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Bankley: 30 Years of Artist Led, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
Jenny: Probably a Goddess, CRETA, Rome
Black Pond (solo), The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth
PULP, Pitt Studios in collaboration with Division of Labour, Worcester University
Everything is Green (solo), The Whitaker Museum, Rossendale
Habitat, Contemporary 6, Manchester
The Green Ray (solo), Bankley Gallery, Manchester
Silent Disco, Greystone Industries, Suffolk
Without Borders, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Northsea Woman, The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth
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